Ryan Braun's Graffito, the latest incarnation of the Third Ward restaurant affiliated with the Brewers all-star, is more focused, has consistently good service and a more personal menu. »Read Full Article

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Your experience there sounds nice. Unfortunately, my husband and I did not enjoy an experience like that.

We went there for the patio and the beautiful day, but left disappointed in the food and the service. And we are not hard to please diners. Throughout the course of the meal, we had four different servers. Four. And not by design. It's like they kept forgetting about us, and then another would stop by and introduce themselves as our server for the night. Huh? Ok. My saltimbocca was extremely dry and tasteless. Blech. They brought my husband the wrong entree TWICE! I thought it was a joke. And then our last and final server forgot that we had ordered dessert and brought us the check first, with the dessert on the check!

Just a thoroughly disappointing evening. We felt like we were bounced around like a ping pong ball. i'll try this place again, because everyone I know seems to have had a good experience, so maybe it was just an off night.

We've been to this restaurant probably 10 times since it opened and have never had a bad experience. I've tried various items on the menu and have not been disappointed by any of them. I can't say enough good things about this place.

Food was very good. I'm a simple eater and ordered a pasta dish. The dish had excellent flavor and very fresh. Service was also very good. They biggest problem is when the dish showed up they had about 6 linguini noodles in the sauce. They charge $12 for a pasta dish how bout you give a guy some pasta to eat. Hate to do it but I'm going there...you go to Carraba's or Olive Garden and for $3 less you get a trough of pasta. It was good though, and lively in there.

Hmm, where to begin, Carol? Should we start with the fact that you are giving 3 1/2 stars to a restaurant with hot wing ravioli, or the obvious fact that you are now firmly in the pockets of SURG restaurant group (as well as Bartolotta's)? Honestly, calling it tomato jam doesn't change the fact that it is ketchup, and throwing prosciutto on top of everything doesn't make it Italian. A perfect example would be the "Italian" benedict, which not so cleverly substitutes prosciutto for Canadian bacon. Not Italian. The bombolini are the same doughnuts that they serve at Carnevor, complete with the same dipping sauces. Lastly, graffito may mean scratch in Italian, but emphasizing the word by using graffiti all over the menu, website and that awful sign outside the restaurant do nothing to help their image as an Italian restaurant. I could maybe see 2 - 2 1/2 stars, but 3 1/2 is an insult to our intelligence.